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Technip, leader of a consortium with Samsung Engineering Co Ltd and China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, was awarded by Pacific NorthWest LNG Limited Partnership a contract for the front end engineering design and the early detailed engineering services of a grassroot liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. This project is proposed to be located on Lelu Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The project will include:

two six-million tons per year LNG trains, process units and marine facilities,

inlet facilities, utilities and power generation,

off-sites including buildings and jetty topside facilities.

This contract is part of a multiple design competition scheme.

Technip’s operating center in Rome, Italy will execute the contract together with the consortium project team in Seoul, Korea and Beijing, China. Technip will be in charge of the LNG trains, the process units and marine facilities. The project is scheduled for completion in the second semester of 2014.

Marco Villa, Technip’s Senior Vice President of Technip Region B*, declared: “This award confirms our strong position in the liquefaction of natural gas, bringing extensive knowledge and conceptual design capabilities to our client’s project. It is also in line with our strategy to get involved at early stages of projects.”